The death toll from flash floods and landslides that tore through Indonesia’s Papua region has topped 100 with dozens more still missing, the disaster agency said on Wednesday.

More than 12,000 people were affected by the floods and at least 104 are confirmed to have died and 79 are unaccounted for in the aftermath of the disaster, which was triggered by heavy rain on Saturday.

Scores have suffered injuries, including cuts and broken bones, while some 40 unidentified bodies would be buried in a mass grave on Thursday, officials said.

Many survivors fear more floods will rip through hard-hit Papua, which shares a border with Papua New Guinea.

New investigations are starting into the certification of the Boeing 737 Max 8 after two fatal crashes in less than six months.
The US Department of Transportation, Congress and the Justice Department are spearheading the inquiries into what the Federal Aviation Administration may have overlooked when it said the aircraft was safe.
This comes as the White House announces its new pick to head the beleaguered agency.

When the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was grounding all Boeing 737 Max planes, the agency said it had identified similarities between last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash and the Lion Air crash in Indonesia six months earlier.

The Ethiopian Minister of Transport reiterated that point on Sunday, saying preliminary data recovered from the black boxes of the crash in Ethiopia showed similarities to the Air Lion crash.

Rescue efforts have begun after Cyclone Idai tore through Mozambique, bringing half a year’s total of rain in a matter of days.
The cyclone arrived at the country’s coast on Thursday, and officials say it’s been difficult to assess the scale of the disaster as roads have been cut off.

The Philippines has officially withdrawn from the
International Criminal Court (ICC), though the beleaguered tribunal has pledged
to pursue its examination of alleged illegal killings in the government’s drug
war.

Manila’s withdrawal on Sunday came a year after it told the
United Nations it was quitting the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal,
becoming the second nation to do so after Burundi.

“The secretary-general … informed all concerned
states that the withdrawal will take effect for the Philippines on 17
March,” UN spokesperson Eri Kaneko told the AFP news agency on Friday.

Under the treaty, withdrawal is only effective one year
after a country gives written notice of its decision to the UN
secretary-general.

A signatory country also can “not be discharged”
of any cases already pending in the court before the withdrawal.